KOLBE & FANNING NOVEMBER 2025 SALE HIGHLIGHTS

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding our 175th auction sale on Saturday, November 22, 2025, starting at 12:00 noon eastern time. The sale features excellent material on U.S. numismatics from the library of John Hoskins, in addition to the outstanding library on Russian numismatics formed by Igor Shneyderov. With over 500 lots, there is something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

   

 
Lots 208 and 256

Lot 208: a priced and named copy of the 1950 Christie's catalogue of selections from the Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich's legendary collection of Russian coins and medals

Lot 256: a complete original set of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society's Zapiski, with works by Markov, Tolstoi, Kaufman, Ilyin, Demmeni and others

 

Lot 302: Ricaud de Tiregale's masterwork, the 1772 Médailles sur les principaux evénémens de l'empire de Russie, with 111 fine engravings of Russian medals

 
Lots 348 and 349

Lot 348: Abe Kosoff's file on Isadore Snyderman's important collection of Russian coins, including copies of the inventories and accompanying correspondence

Lot 349: an original letter, signed by hand, from Princess Xenia of Russia to Edward Gans, discussing the collection of her father, Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich

 
Lots 425 and 433

Lot 425: S.H. Chapman's 1921 catalogue of the Dr. J.M. Henderson collection, one of eight known copies with the four superb photographic plates of half cents and large cents

Lot 433: Carl Würtzbach's copy of the very scarce 1878 printing of the first edition of Sylvester Crosby's foundational study, The Early Coins of America

 
Lots 441 and 488

Lot 441: Tom Elder's 1920 catalogue of the Henry C. Miller collection, featuring 28 superb photographic plates depicting ancient, English, and American coins and medals

Lot 488: a handsomely bound set of the auction catalogues of William H. and T.R. Strobridge, comprising 23 catalogues bound in six volumes, with two catalogues being named.

Lot 445: a bound volume of eight American auction catalogues of the 1880s, six of which feature photographically printed plates, also from the library of Carl Würtzbach

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KOLBE & FANNING NOVEMBER 2025 SALE ANNOUNCED (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n44a02.html)

   

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